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Feminine
Foundation
A Strong CORE, Self-Knowledge, Feeling
Sisters
of the Heart
The
foundation of the Alpha Female is grounded in both thought and feeling,
spiritual connection and instinct. Our feminine instinct leads us to
hold relationship to others in high esteem. We build and strengthen and
embrace community.
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Common
sense. Instinct.
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The
four internal voices which make up our 'inner expert'.
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Head
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Heart
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Gut
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Spirit
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Feelings
“what you know in your head will not sustain you in moments of
crisis…. Confidence comes
from body awareness, knowing what you feel in the moment”.
"In a world that still honors logic, reason and
linear-sequential thought processes, feelings are often overlooked.
But it is the very feelings which deepen our experience of life,
that warn us of danger, that help us see the difference between truth
and untruth, that keep us safe and sane.
--- Marion Woodman
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We have come to believe that we must either be cold, calculating,
logical, rational women, or we must throw all thinking out the window
and carry the load for all the feeling, intuitive aspects of our
society…. There's nothing wrong with thinking.
It's the way we do it. Often,
when we lead with our logical, rational minds, we have not allowed them
to be informed by our being and our other thought processes of
intuition, attention, and awareness.
It is in the synergy among all these aspects of our mind that
true thinking begins.” Anne
W. Schaef
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Anger-anger
is the primary emotion that women have been taught not to feel, not to
show. And yet, being human,
we do get angry. We get
angry when no one listens to us. We get
angry
when we are passed over, we get angry when we are sick or tired and
don't take care of ourselves. We
get angry when we have behaved angrily, and we get angry, when others
are angry at us. It's a
vicious cycle.The dance of anger is the most problematic when
it is avoided or suppressed. Secondarily,
it is a problem when it is poorly expressed.
“Only
the radar in our hearts can…take us home, and when it does, we return
to our castles. There we
are crowned in gold, and we remember how to laugh, how to love, how to
rule.”MW “The
reemergence of women will bring about the healing of the world.
Electing women to positions of political power does not in itself
guarantee the expression of a feminine voice in the external world. Once
in power, women can be tempted to conspire with the paternalistic system
that they feel has so magnanimously allowed them a place at the table.
They feel compelled to be strong men among strong men.”
Marianne Williamson
What
does it mean to be an alpha FEMALE?
"It
means to establish territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body
with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations,
to speak and act in one's behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the
innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's
cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retianas
much consciousness as we can." CPE p12
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